C.Q.B.: Close Quarter Battle

Author: Mike Curtis

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  • : $29.99 NZD
  • : 9780552144650
  • : Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • : Corgi Books
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  • : 0.275
  • : November 1998
  • : 178mm X 105mm X 31mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 29.99
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  • : English
  • : 356/.167/092 B
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Description

Mike Curtis, a former coal miner and likely Welsh rugby international, served with 2 Para in the Falklands before going on to join the SAS. In this book Curtis, describes his gruelling experiences in the Falklands and some of his SAS operations.

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A breathtakingly exciting SAS autobiography packed with incident and drama.

Reviews

"Well paced, tightly written... an excellent book... genuinely outsanding" Daily Mail

Author description

Born and bred in the valleys, Mike Curtis followed his schoolmates down the pit at the age of sixteen. He decided, however, to break the mould and applied to join the Parachute Regiment in 1979. Enlisted in 2 Para, he served in Northern Ireland and then went out to the Falkland Islands. He joined the SAS in 1986.